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• We can't be certain who the villains are cuz everyone's so pretty, but the after party's sure to be the wing-ding as it moves into your city.

  Sheryl Crow

  Art, Moving, Media

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• My insides still turn over when he looks at me that certain way.

  Judy Blume

  Crush, Looks, Way

  Judy Blume (2014). “Forever”, p.43, Pan Macmillan

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• There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Body, Matter

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.227

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• [Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once.... The time... is of the order of two billion years.... Given so much time, the "impossible" becomes possible, the possible probable, and the probable virtually certain. One only has to wait: time itself performs the miracles.

  George Wald

  Science, Origin Of Life, Order

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• It seems that the increased number of scientific workers, their being split up into groups whose studies are limited to a small subject, and over-specialization have brought about a shrinking of intelligence. There is no doubt that the quality of any human group decreases when the number of the individuals composing this group increases beyond certain limits... The best way to increase the intelligence of scientists would be to decrease their number.

  Alexis Carrel

  Science, Men, Numbers

  Alexis Carrel (1939). “Man the Unknown”

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• If you seem to yourself to be lacking in certain necessary qualities, if your character seems to lack strength, ask God to give you what you need - and He will. You can build any quality into your mentality by meditating upon that quality every day.

  Emmet Fox

  Motivational, Encouragement, Character

  Emmet Fox (1946). “Make your life worth while”, Harper San Francisco

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• It is becoming plain that our liberal regime of equality and personal freedom depends, more than most theorists of liberalism have been willing to admit, on the existence and support of certain social assumptions and practices: the belief that each and every human being possesses great and inherent value, the willingness to respect the rights of others even at the cost of some disadvantages to one's self, the ability to defer some immediate benefits for the sake of long-range goals, and a regard for reason-giving and civility in public discourse.

  Mary Ann Glendon

  Rights, Self, Practice

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• 'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.

  John Wilkins

  Science, Compass, Latitude

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• I fancy you give me credit for being a more systematic sort of cove than I really am in the matter of limits of significance. What would actually happen would be that I should make out Pt (normal) and say to myself that would be about 50:1; pretty good but as it may not be normal we'd best not be too certain, or 100:1; even allowing that it may not be normal it seems good enough and whether one would be content with that or would require further work would depend on the importance of the conclusion and the difficulty of obtaining suitable experience.

  William Sealy Gosset

  Science, Giving, Would Be

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• Both life-planning and the adoption of lifestyle options become (in principle) integrated with bodily regimes. It would be quite short-sighted to see this phenomenon only in terms of changing ideals of bodily appearance (such as slimness or youthfulness), or as solely brought about by the commodifying influence of advertising. We become responsible for the design of our own bodies, and in a certain sense noted above are forced to do so the more post-traditional the social contexts in which we move.

  Anthony Giddens

  Moving, Adoption, Design

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.107, John Wiley & Sons

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• Individuals inherit a particular space within an interlocking set of social relationships; lacking that space, they are nobody, or at best a stranger or an outcast. To know oneself as such a social person is however not to occupy a static and fixed position. It is to find oneself placed at a certain point on a journey with set goals; to move through life is to make progress - or to fail to make progress - toward a given end.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Life, Moving, Journey

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.39, A&C Black

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• A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security - that connects options in a more or less ordered pattern. (...) [T]he selection or creation of lifestyles is influenced by group pressures and the visibility of role models, as well as by socioeconomic circumstances.

  Anthony Giddens

  Role Models, Unity, Important

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• The world would have you believe that you are of worth only if you have money, a certain physical appearance, stylish clothes, or social position. The gospel assures you that your value is not dependent on your looks or material possessions. ... Part of what it means to be a Latter-day Saint is to know within your soul your eternal worth, who you really are, and why you are here on earth.

  Elaine L. Jack

  Self Esteem, Believe, Mean

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• It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it.

  Aimee Mann

  Writing, Come Up, Cases

  Song: I Know There's a Word, Album: Whatever, 1993

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• Few nations do more than the United States to assist their least fortunate citizens-to make certain that no child, no elderly or handicapped citizen, no family in any circumstances in any State, is left without the essential needs for a decent and healthy existence. In too few nations, I might add, are the people aware of the progressive strides this country has taken in demonstrating the humanitarian side of freedom. Our record is a proud one-and it sharply refutes those who accuse us of thinking only in the materialistic terms of cash registers and calculating machines.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Children, Taken

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• It's frustrating - not that I expect to be the same person I was 10 years ago, but I do expect to do certain things. In all honesty, my body for the most part feels really good. But at this point of my career, I have to rely on different parts of my game, knowing how to take some short cuts when you can.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Basketball, Honesty, Cutting

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• When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that.

  David Coverdale

  Thinking, Ideas, Band

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• If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not.

  James Chanos

  Cacophony, Noise, Way

  "Interview with Jim Chanos". Graham & Doddsville, a Columbia Business School investment newsletter,

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• If you want a referendum, vote for the others. Or, in certain cases, you can stay at home, you don't vote and you could find yourself with a referendum by default because you didn't exercise your vote.

  Jean Charest

  Home, Exercise, Finding Yourself

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• If you want to do what you want to do, you have to look a certain way.

  Jessica Cutler

  Way, Looks, Want

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• I think the French Open, in many ways, brought out a certain characteristic in me and in my game that was already there. Just the circumstances allowed for it to be able to show.

  Michael Chang

  Thinking, Games, Able

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• I think when you've played at the level that I've played, anything outside the top 10 in certain aspects is just a number, unless you're obviously trying to get into tournaments and stuff.

  Michael Chang

  Thinking, Numbers, Trying

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• When I hear the word "documentary," I don't think certain things should be left out. You've got to keep it 100 percent as much as you can, unless your group has a meeting beforehand and says, "Yo -- don't say this, 'cause boom, boom, boom." Other than that, it's a documentary so let's document, you know what I mean?

  Phife Dawg

  Mean, Thinking, Groups

  "A Tribe Called Quest's Phife Dawg and Jarobi On the Beats, Rhymes & Life Beef and Rap Today". Interview with Jen Yamato, movieline.com. July 18, 2011.

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• A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt restructuring, and there is a certain amount of printing of money. When done in the right mix, it isn't dramatic.

  Ray Dalio

  Beautiful, Balance, Three

  "RAY DALIO: America Is Executing A 'Beautiful Deleveraging'" by Sam Ro, www.businessinsider.com. May 19, 2012.

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• Credit is a promise to deliver money. It will produce GDP but you'll create credit... So you reach a certain point that that you can't do that anymore... There are choices. And how do we best support, apportion the money? How much is going to be transferred?

  Ray Dalio

  Gdp, Choices, Support

  "Here's The Most Brilliant Thing Ray Dalio Said At His Interview Last Week" by Courtney Comstock, www.businessinsider.com. September 19, 2011.

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